From John Helmer

https://johnhelmer.net/the-new-time-of-troubles-part-ii-putin-overruled-the-general-staff/#more-90814

Another theory about the Syrian surprise from Alex Krainer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUV-Ijh8zc&t=4039s via https://sonar21.com/my-chat-with-alex-krainer-on-syria-ukraine-and-the-future-of-europe/ see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FQeGjPSc0

Scott Ritter on the current situation in Syria and neighbourhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vazdsqqybR0

The aftermath of Syrian collapse from Scott Ritter, somewhat trenchant support of Türkiye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIAJTVxtq A different take from Colonel Douglas Macgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcoaMvlHcg Another https://sonar21.com/chinese-hack-means-beijing-reading-and-hearing-all-us-military-and-intelligence-classified-phone-communications/

Marat Khairullin sees it differently

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/lessons-from-syria-assad-and-putin A discussion of the post https://karlof1.substack.com/p/marat-khairullens-counterpoint-essay/comments

Big changes in a week

it seems that Trump already won on two issues even before he came to power with the collapse in Syria. A sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iFzYABE0w https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

Chas Freeman on the current collapse in Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA30KfpuXGM

Mike Benz on the origin and workings of the Security State

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/24/mike_benz_the_history_of_the_intelligence_state.html

Syria falls

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/syria-falls.html#more

Mark Sweboda is pessimistic about Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqQE8kjcxo A different perspective from Alastair Crooke and Marat Khairullin https://www.eurasiareview.com/07122024-erdogans-idlib-shock-shadows-kursk-oped/

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on South Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Xuo4Jf_lw

The Duran on Erdogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlsrp9toPQ

Alastair Crooke on Syrian conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvZlTYpsz4 see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VoYUKELBY

Desperate escalations from Alastair Crooke at Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9ZD0DLUHQ

Laith Marouf with Dimitri Lascaris on the situation in Lebanon and Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_aJ8-3ySY

Simplicius on the empire

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back-launching https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back-launching another post on the same day https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-finally-breaks-willing-to

Professor Marandi on Ceasfire Lebanon

Hezbollah did not accept or reject ceasefire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhW6IDmGf3I

The situation on the ground with Patrick Lancaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUvoPnolxc

Alastair crooke on Trump vs Deep State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0KHWZyPao https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/22/the-counter-insurgency-is-on-against-trump-storm/

The next 60 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1o_TmfjcS0&t=157s from Intrnational Peace Coalition Conference

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on the global economic systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQkNAQQoTxw

Colonel Macgregor on ICC arrest warrants ad the new missile in Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/KPJmh_bAxlA

Scary discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sosNSNPLnCU

Chas Freeman on Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBhdZo-cGjM

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the possibilities with Trump administration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pH_SroB2c

Chas Freeman on Trump and Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTBRL337Nj4

Hype and hope but possibly more of the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJLTH3MZ7jc

Alex Krainer on Trump victory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRbvkF21vuo

Brics financial initiatives

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1850553829625897209 Translation of a post by Jacques Sapir https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2024/10/imf-sees-growth-shifting-from-g-7-to-brics/

Larry Johnson with Daniel Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGzWg65byDk

Alastair Crooke on the Israeli attack on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkNk76E3SI

Laitth Marouf with Activist News Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAZuLZrb4yk

More about Ramanujan from Quanta Magazine

About Rogers-Ramanujan identities https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

Daniel Davis on Israel bombing of Iran yesterday and related topics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVb_razZ3Y

Scott Ritter at ‘Dialogue Works’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKLINmj-cs

On Yahya Sinwar’s death

https://youtu.be/eyVVDyBBIGA

John Helmer and Gilbert Doctorow discussion at ‘The Duran’

interesting and there seems to be a lot of agreement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0FhnePgYk

Alastair Crooke quoting Michael Hudson

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/14/israel-does-what-does-was-always-planned-this-way/ based on https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html and https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/richard-d-wolff-michael-hudson-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-us-take-action.html

Interview with Gary Volger, former oil consultant to American army

https://sonar21.com/wage-wars-steal-oil-a-conversation-with-iraqs-oil-minister/

Scott Ritter again taking to a sceptic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJfbx1Pe7g https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/08/scott-ritter-the-fall-of-israel/

Laugh Marouf on the current situation in Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4d8BhRqlD4

Doug Henwood interviews Rashid Khalidi on settler-colonial Israel

https://lbo-news.com/2024/10/08/rashid-khalidi-on-settler-colonial-israel-an-interview/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff in an important discussion

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/richard-d-wolff-michael-hudson-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-us-take-action.html

Alastair Crooke from ‘Going Underground’

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/605250-iran-ballistic-missile-attack-alastair-crooke/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the current economic situation

https://michael-hudson.com/2024/10/a-world-pushed-to-resist-u-s-policies-and-the-rise-of-global-alliances/ similar topics in 2007 https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/debtor-nation-html

Larry Johnson on the latest developments in Israel

but the bombings if civilians continue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5SMOlqmKI

A new Nusrat Fateh Ali khan from 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJM8zW0VmoA

MoA on Iran strike on Israel

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/iran-attacked-israel-only-after-the-us-had-rejected-its-moderate-stance.html#more Simplicius has a different take: 'It is really a theatre of sorts'...https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-true-promise-2-iran-strikes

Netanyahu gambles on slaughter, Alastair Crooke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCS97AOI2X0 a similar commentary from Larry Johnson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRvh4bvKj5U

Julian Assange interview of Nasrallah from 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1fHfKenTM

Larry Johnson interviews Alastair Crooke

The military situation didcussed around 50 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Vrf5c-umY check also https://sonar21.com/exploding-myths-of-middle-east-terrorism/

Daniel Davis Deep Dive on Nasrallah assassination and future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwtuieOA4

A. M. Turing Award Oral History Interview with Raj Reddy by John Markoff (2018)

https://amturing.acm.org/pdf/ReddyTuringTranscript.pdf

Deep Dive on Lebanon with Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfYjGOeHOs

Karl Sanchez on Alexandr Zinoviev

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/resurrecting-zinovievs-westernism

A Pepe Escobar duet from Karl Sanchez

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/a-pepe-escobar-duet-two-complementary

Some history lessons from Scott Ritter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4zTevExUc

Alastair Crooke latest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtvmSBjfz-I

Scott Ritter discusses Turkiye

from 27 minutes. But he does notndiscuss Turkiye allowing oil flow to Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkHYmddHbI

A pause in the escalation of Ukraine war

https://sonar21.com/following-putins-warning-that-any-attacks-in-russia-with-western-supplied-missiles-will-be-treated-as-an-act-of-war-nato-flips/

The role of songs in people’s movements by Vijay Prashad

https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/culture-resistance-telangana-palestine/

Zelensky's Last Hail Mary Gets Off to Rocky Start, Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-last-hail-mary-gets-off

Book Review with links to discussions

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/01/23/book-review-free-agents-how-evolution-gave-us-free-will/

The myth of US bankruptcy with Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Ed7b1-LnY https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/the-myth-that-the-us-is-rapidly-approaching-bankruptcy.html

Alastair Crooke on Freedom of Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnm9Vzrpkrg

Sanchez on truth wars

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/outlaw-us-empires-anti-truth-war

A new book about India by William Dalrymple

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/07/the-golden-road-how-ancient-india-transformed-the-world-william-dalyrmple-review (different soellings of the author's name)

Everything You Want To Know about Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review

https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/09/04/everything-you-want-to-know-about-inequality-the-ifs-deaton-review/

The wisest indian

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-wisest-indian-andre-beteille-a-scholar-with-a-difference/cid/2046388

Important article by John Helmer and discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lquZhs-UTQ

AlastairCrooke at Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyD38A0sllU karl Sanchez on the above https://karlof1.substack.com/p/the-new-western-crusade-extremism

Colonel Macgregor at Redacted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP2grcXmEH4

Simplicius update on Kursk offensive and related topics

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-82324-despite-russian-fumbles

Perfection: checkerboard illusion

https://www.zmescience.com/other/great-pics/bulge-illusion-checkerboard-redone/

Big Serge on the Kursk offensive

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/back-to-the-bloodlands-operation

Updates from Larry Johnson

https://sonar21.com/critical-updates-on-kursk-and-the-war-in-palestine/

Latest from Larry Johnson

https://sonar21.com/the-united-states-is-preparing-to-jettison-volodomyr-zelensky/

Scott Ritter on the Kursk offensive in the second half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5sre_0tcE

About Ozempic and related topics

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-diseases "Fine, the title is an exaggeration. But only a small one. GLP-1 receptor agonist medications like Ozempic are already FDA-approved to treat diabetes and obesity. But an increasing body of research finds they’re also effective against stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and drug addiction."

War inevitable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgmkKWEpMQ Another veteran negotiator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJW5hhzOsj0&t=3273s

Review of Todd book on the defeat of the west

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/how-the-west-was-defeated-1116245840.html

On the inevitable war in the Middle East from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=judge+napolitan Karl Sanchez elaborates on the above https://karlof1.substack.com/p/crooke-on-the-liberal-dictatorship

Colonel Macgregor on Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_-WTBF_-Wc

The west and the rest?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/western-ambassadors-pull-out-of-nagasaki-memorial-after-israel-not-invited/

The Gaza Method

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/gaza-as-a-new-western-method-to-wage-war.html#more

Alastair Crooke at Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkfEh4bIIw

John Evan’s on Putin

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/key-understanding-vladimir-putin-82391#disqus_thread

Colonel Macgregor at Judging Frredom on assassinations by Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLwqqsb4Ff4

Alistair Crooke on Lebanon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDERjMb3ZIs and ! Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com/looks-like-israel-is-creating-a-reason-to-go-to-war-with-hezbollah-and-iran/

Interesting discussion from Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/subscriber-mailbag-answers-72824/comments

Things moving fast in America

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/extraordinary-events-taking-place

Busy

i have been busy doing mathematics. i have also problems uploading links and videos and need to consult somebody.

Tulsi Gabbard and Trump

https://tomluongo.me/2024/07/11/tulsi-gabbard-ultimate-insurance-policy-trump/

The Duran on Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPUmAvZkqY

Chas Freeman on Israel

Modi in Moscow

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/russia-india-a-particularly-privileged

Update from Alastair Crooke

Carl Zimmer reports on whether language is needed for thinking

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/science/brain-language-thought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U0.Kfbn.cWqiYcis-fKE&smid=url-share&utm_source=carlzimmer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fridays-elk-just-when-i-thought-i-was-out "Strokes and other forms of brain damage can wipe out the language network, leaving people struggling to process words and grammar, a condition known as aphasia. But scientists have discovered that people can still do algebra and play chess even with aphasia. In experiments, people with aphasia can look at two numbers — 123 and 321, say — and recognize that, by using the same pattern, 456 should be followed by 654. If language is not essential for thought, then what is language for? Communication, Dr. Fedorenko and her colleagues argue. Dr. Chomsky and other researchers have rejected that idea, pointing out the ambiguity of words and the difficulty of expressing our intuitions out loud. “The system is not well designed in many functional respects,” Dr. Chomsky once said."

Dan Davies on his new book

https://www.netinterest.co/p/decisions-nobody-made Brad DeLong and others commented on it.

Loosing Russia

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/01/the-west-indubitably-has-lost-russia-and-is-losing-eurasia-too/